Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] became [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 2 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 3 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 4 | Boppard , for example , was a royal residence of the Merovingian Franks and later became a Free Imperial City . |
| 5 | The church which Kinloch also provided has in its churchyard a flagstaff from which permanently flies the saltire or St Andrew 's cross , floodlit at night , recalling the vision of a white cross against blue sky which supposedly inspired combined Pictish and Scottish forces to victory against the invading King Athelstan and later became the national flag . |
| 6 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |